PS5 Save Bug Ignored for Weeks – Need an Update

[wormwood123]

Is it possible that it’s related to the amount of saves created in one play season (as in one opening of the game not on the world)

I say this because yesterday I was playing for about 40 days in a row and I lost my progress from day1291 rolled back to 1276 which wasn’t the day that I started on that play session so I was wondering if it’s got anything to do with too many saves getting made because I had left the server a few times to purchase skins with spools 

[Venether97]

It seems like the save process sometimes gets interrupted, even though the UI doesn’t show it. It’s possible that the save is being killed too quickly, for example if the game is closed before it’s fully completed. In these cases, the old snapshot is always loaded.

It might help to prevent the game from being closed too quickly while a save is still in progress, or to provide visible feedback that saving is ongoing, so data is reliably preserved. 😶‍🌫️

@CharlesB

[Johnny_Waffles]

What I don't get is last time I played I kept logging out every hour to make sure it saved and even when I was done playing I checked to see if it saved which it did but hours later when I got back on it rolled back to the same day it rolled back to the day before which was about 20-25 days before

[wormwood123]

I've been playing around with saving and i seem to be able to fully avoid the loss of progress if i play for 1 in game day and close the game and then open it again. It also only rolls the saves back AFTER closing the game so it seems to be something goes wrong when you close the game.

[NSAiswatchingus]

4 hours ago, wormwood123 said:

I've been playing around with saving and i seem to be able to fully avoid the loss of progress if i play for 1 in game day and close the game and then open it again. It also only rolls the saves back AFTER closing the game so it seems to be something goes wrong when you close the game.

Interesting! That's gotta be good info towards getting the bug figured out. I couldn't stomach exiting the game every 8 minutes though. Thanks for struggling through that for science!

[DarknestSin]

Ive looked up and found three ways people have found to keep it from rolling back. but ive tried all three and it still does it. the last one i tried with closing the game after each day worked for a bit but then it started rolling back 4-5 days.

[CharlesB]

This will hopefully be fixed in the next update, 2.005.002, which should be released later this week.

[wormwood123]

19 hours ago, CharlesB said:

This will hopefully be fixed in the next update, 2.005.002, which should be released later this week.

Thank goodness!

[CharlesB]

The update is now live. Let me know how it goes for you all.

[Willows]

On 1/22/2026 at 1:52 AM, CharlesB said:

The update is now live. Let me know how it goes for you all.

The issue still is there. I play with a friend local co-op. Just this Friday we  completely lost a 30+ day old world, and a world that we already died in reapeared. Also then started another world 50+ days in everything was fine until we tried to login yesterday, the second player lost his character. Had to choose again from the selection screen, all his items disapeared. 

[NSAiswatchingus]

1 hour ago, Willows said:

The issue still is there. I play with a friend local co-op. Just this Friday we  completely lost a 30+ day old world, and a world that we already died in reapeared. Also then started another world 50+ days in everything was fine until we tried to login yesterday, the second player lost his character. Had to choose again from the selection screen, all his items disapeared. 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!1!!! 

Anyone else still having the save problem? I'm so ready to bring the new(ish) trees up to the surface. 

[Venether97]

So far, I haven’t lost any days, but I’m also playing without rollbacks.